Its also, you know. Hard?
Most benders we see only do a very rough version of bending, aang could barely control firebending until he got the cheat codes, toph, katara, zuko and aang are prodigys capable of doing shit like bending metal, creating an armor, redirecting lightning, healing and other shit.
Come to think of it the most skilled benders we see are the swamp waterbenders
Imagine the amount of skill required to bend something inside someone's body, that's why we never see it used in combat outside of Korra which is complete bullshit
Atla would benefit from having something like the faceless men guild, a group of highly skilled assasins infiltrated in every kingdom working closely to every powerful person. Water and air benders can easily and discreetly murder someone while fire and earth benders could organize a coup
The fact that Aang can get so much done with just Airbending is a pretty clear signal that it's the most broken powerset. The only people who can possibly do more damage are Earthbending masters.
Yeah, they just needed Katara to have her moment in the end where she uses some unique gimmick, kinda like how she saved Aang with that water from the north pole and that's really the only use that ever has.
>moving a person by the blood in their bodies
How does that not kill a person immediately? How do you levitate a person by their blood and not cause internal bleeding and rupture ever vein in their body?
That's not how that works. Bending is the main plot and fantasy element of that universe, so it simply IS a part of its physics.
Breaking physics as part of the show's premise is, breaking LOGIC however isn't. It is a valid observation that if they really can only bend the water and use it to lift the whole body weight this does not lead to ruptures even IF the controlling of the water breaks physics.
You can see that by them in theory easily being able to explain away - in other words break physics even more just so that it inherently is consistent again - they could say that a bloodbender ALSO bends the blood but at the same time all other water in the body for example - ot over 2/3 of its mass being water it should be relatively safe to at once lift the remaining body weight by simulataniously lifting every molecule at once. Then physics would be crying even more but logically it would be satisfying.
This goes into a theory I have that bending caused humans to be much more durable the ones in our universe. You always see characters getting hit by things that would easily kill them or at the very least broke every bone in their body. For example pretty much every earth bender fight is just throwing 2 ton rocks at 75mps at a singular person. So basically the answer to why blood bending doesn't immediately kill them is because their blood is tougher than ours.
Yeah, that is actually pretty reasonable. The people in that series get put through some wild nonsense and survive with less than a scratch half the time.
My headcanon is that people only call it bloodbending because it sounds spooky and evil, but it's still mainly waterbending. You know, the element most of our body is composed of.
It's kinda fricked up, but the main thing is that Katara didn't like it and she had Asian Jesus' ear, so she had it declared illegal. But determinations about what's a humane way of harming or killing are always kinda arbitrary, so whatever.
It would stop him yes but for xyz reason ozai would overpower it for second, like in korra, thus giving him the opportunity to strike katara with a lightning or something .
He is probably too fast for it
He would spot you and burn your ass before you had the chance to do anything
If you were a ninja however or even an assassin it could work but you would have to catch him alone or be really good and use him as a puppet to fight for you, it would still leave your body open to any kind of attack tho
But if you are at that point just poioison him I stead
Korra established it was just a specific family who were able to do it without the moon.
The idea that Blood bending requires a full moon is idiotic anyway. The implication is obviously that you need to be a really, really strong bender to do it freely.
Wait so it's stupid if water benders have a moon that is deeply tied to their culture anyway, but it's cool for fire benders to have a comet that circles back every few half centuries?
Well we know better today but just 600 hundred years ago people did think they were fire and they were a sign of bad omens to come.
Now imagine an avatar story set like a hundred years into the future where the fire nation has decided to conquer the world again except this time the use a sprirt vine powered rocketship with an elite team of fire benders to catch sozins commet and capture it inside a giant Mecha that's piloted by the new phoniex king. This mecha would be so strong it obliteratates bae sing sae and melts the polar ice caps in minutes. Then they go on to conquer the stars and this is the start of my Avatar x 40k fan fic.
Good luck getting anywhere using blood ending against an army
You can shoosh hour hands and create a wave trapping docens of soldiers and then freeze that wave and because it's a world without hypothermia everything will be fine
Blood ending is moronicly weak in comparison
well no;
the solution is "bending is dying out" and to have magic fade away in favor of technology and modernization that steamroll tradition and mysticism.
the line separating the magic of bending versus physics and sciences needs to be one found in a fading "spirit world" that is fading in part due to human expansion and progress.
Seasons ranking for korra
3>1>4>2
Would this be right?
2 years ago
Anonymous
4 is much better than 1 story-wise, though 1 has the best animation. It's 3 > 4 > 1 > 2 in my books.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Literally how is 4>1. Korra didnt do shit as a paraplegic and the shit ending was stupid.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Kuvira is a much better villain, Korra's arc that season is very compelling, and the way she defeats Kuvira in the finale is a really fantastic capstone for her character (as compared to what S1 would have been as a stand-alone ending). S1 has really excellent animation, but in all other areas S4 is superior. I do love that S1 takes place entirely in Republic City, though, Republic City is fricking awesome.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I laughed my ass off at seeing her in a wheelchair and that's the only time the show made me laugh intentional or not
2 years ago
Anonymous
You know, my opinion is biased because season 2 was so bad it ruined the show for me but I guess I can find plenty wrong with both seasons 3 and 1
I just like season 1 more because it has a better villain and the world still somewhat makes sense
Plus season three has the airbending tornado which I hate, I hate when characters pull a new superpower out of their asses because it's convenient to the plot, they are meant to be people who just got their powers yet they can learn something like that on the spot? Frick you
2 years ago
Anonymous
The Tornado is saner than Bolin Lavabending
2 years ago
Anonymous
It is bullshit and it's them clearly trying to do tophs metalbending 2.0
But at least bolin had been bending his entire life
>NOOOOOOO YOU MUST FOLLOW THESE VERY SPECIFIC RULES WHEN KILLING EACH OTHER! OTHERWISE ITS NOT FAIR!
Just sorch this fricking earth already I'm tired of being here.
Also i find interesting how using bloodbending they technically could rupture the arteries and organs literally having a instakill move.
Water benders are scary
>hurling bone breaking boulders good >throwing ice shards good >literally drowning people with water >maiming people with fricking fire just like zuko good >blood bending bad tho
they probably didnt expect people to think too hard about it
Katara is a special case. Though to be frank, Bloodbending seems like an immoral thing when you can willingly control your enemy's body and torture them like that.
It's Dark Arts for sure, but it does have its own pros. Katara's was so traumatic b/c of her view on life and nature, being forced to partake in something that goes against her views on a fundamental level broke her. Hence why the only other time Katara used it she was mentally and emotionally in a dark place.
Maybe because everyone we've seen use it (other than Katara) is a megalomaniac puppeteer psycho? >crazy old woman that kidnaps random villagers and imprisons/tortures them in a cave >mob boss that rules the underground of Republic City >cult leader that maims people to erase their ability to bend >corrupt politician who makes his dissenters disappear
Because being controlled from the blood in your body can have immense consequences on the body.
Frick, just look at the effects from long term G force training.
Avatar's elements doesn't makes sense because air, water and earth basically represents three states of the matter while fire bending is just combustion, that somehow manipulates lightning, which implies it controls energies in general. Either way, things that we can find in everyone's body.
Because before the LoK it was mostly an elaborate torture method. I mean, it's very strong for the dueling, but ultimately it's completely useless for the 99% of benders as anything but the torture device, since, with the exception of the prodigies like Katara, most of them wouldn't be able to even use it beyond just giving somebody the extraordinarily painful cramps and maybe some telekinetic shove. >tldr: for the same reason the human rights tribunal frowns upon using pointlessly elaborate killing methods during the war.
people's will
Because defeating your ennemies in battle isn't against their will right
Because it's overpowered as frick as they need a way to close that potential plot hole.
never you mind air bending is the strongest because you can just collapse a moron's lungs
You could also drown them by forcing water into their lungs
Or pull the blood from their body like they did to that 1 flower, or divert the blood from pumping anywhere. Brain hemorrhaging, it's got a few uses.
Its also, you know. Hard?
Most benders we see only do a very rough version of bending, aang could barely control firebending until he got the cheat codes, toph, katara, zuko and aang are prodigys capable of doing shit like bending metal, creating an armor, redirecting lightning, healing and other shit.
Come to think of it the most skilled benders we see are the swamp waterbenders
Imagine the amount of skill required to bend something inside someone's body, that's why we never see it used in combat outside of Korra which is complete bullshit
Atla would benefit from having something like the faceless men guild, a group of highly skilled assasins infiltrated in every kingdom working closely to every powerful person. Water and air benders can easily and discreetly murder someone while fire and earth benders could organize a coup
Know what else is hard? My dick for asami.
Please Korra control yourself
and that's why all airbenders are moonks or dead
Are we just ignoring that earth bending has been shown to bury people with minimal movement required?
It's just another reason why airbending is the best element, it's the only element that can't be caught by that bs move
Cant they Explorer their whole body too?
Blood is full of oxygen
The fact that Aang can get so much done with just Airbending is a pretty clear signal that it's the most broken powerset. The only people who can possibly do more damage are Earthbending masters.
every single person who replied to this post forgot about the one bending style that allows you to burn people alive
seriously, spontaneous human combustion is a thing!
Was it a bending power? I thought it was just her special thing.
Requiring the moon takes care of that.
Yeah, they just needed Katara to have her moment in the end where she uses some unique gimmick, kinda like how she saved Aang with that water from the north pole and that's really the only use that ever has.
>moving a person by the blood in their bodies
How does that not kill a person immediately? How do you levitate a person by their blood and not cause internal bleeding and rupture ever vein in their body?
how do you bend by not breaking the laws of physics
That's not how that works. Bending is the main plot and fantasy element of that universe, so it simply IS a part of its physics.
Breaking physics as part of the show's premise is, breaking LOGIC however isn't. It is a valid observation that if they really can only bend the water and use it to lift the whole body weight this does not lead to ruptures even IF the controlling of the water breaks physics.
You can see that by them in theory easily being able to explain away - in other words break physics even more just so that it inherently is consistent again - they could say that a bloodbender ALSO bends the blood but at the same time all other water in the body for example - ot over 2/3 of its mass being water it should be relatively safe to at once lift the remaining body weight by simulataniously lifting every molecule at once. Then physics would be crying even more but logically it would be satisfying.
I don't read excuses gay
>firebending, airbending, and earthbending breaking physics is fine because that's just how the setting is
>HOWEVER
Toon physics.
ATLA is relatively realisticly drawn and presented but they still apply.
This goes into a theory I have that bending caused humans to be much more durable the ones in our universe. You always see characters getting hit by things that would easily kill them or at the very least broke every bone in their body. For example pretty much every earth bender fight is just throwing 2 ton rocks at 75mps at a singular person. So basically the answer to why blood bending doesn't immediately kill them is because their blood is tougher than ours.
This may help explain why the world is so warlike.
Yeah, that is actually pretty reasonable. The people in that series get put through some wild nonsense and survive with less than a scratch half the time.
My headcanon is that people only call it bloodbending because it sounds spooky and evil, but it's still mainly waterbending. You know, the element most of our body is composed of.
Even levitating and contorting a person's body with the fluids in their body is going to frick them up and practically kill them.
Using people as meat puppets is bad
It's kinda fricked up, but the main thing is that Katara didn't like it and she had Asian Jesus' ear, so she had it declared illegal. But determinations about what's a humane way of harming or killing are always kinda arbitrary, so whatever.
Could blood bending have stopped a full firelord Ozin with the sozin comet power upgrade?
It would stop him yes but for xyz reason ozai would overpower it for second, like in korra, thus giving him the opportunity to strike katara with a lightning or something .
He is probably too fast for it
He would spot you and burn your ass before you had the chance to do anything
If you were a ninja however or even an assassin it could work but you would have to catch him alone or be really good and use him as a puppet to fight for you, it would still leave your body open to any kind of attack tho
But if you are at that point just poioison him I stead
I thought it required a full moon for one to bloodbend
It doesnt matter korra fricked it all up anyway.
Korra established it was just a specific family who were able to do it without the moon.
The idea that Blood bending requires a full moon is idiotic anyway. The implication is obviously that you need to be a really, really strong bender to do it freely.
Wait so it's stupid if water benders have a moon that is deeply tied to their culture anyway, but it's cool for fire benders to have a comet that circles back every few half centuries?
That never made sense. I think the showrunners legitimately thought comets were made of fire.
Well we know better today but just 600 hundred years ago people did think they were fire and they were a sign of bad omens to come.
Now imagine an avatar story set like a hundred years into the future where the fire nation has decided to conquer the world again except this time the use a sprirt vine powered rocketship with an elite team of fire benders to catch sozins commet and capture it inside a giant Mecha that's piloted by the new phoniex king. This mecha would be so strong it obliteratates bae sing sae and melts the polar ice caps in minutes. Then they go on to conquer the stars and this is the start of my Avatar x 40k fan fic.
Because it just is
Good luck getting anywhere using blood ending against an army
You can shoosh hour hands and create a wave trapping docens of soldiers and then freeze that wave and because it's a world without hypothermia everything will be fine
Blood ending is moronicly weak in comparison
because it's stupid and ruins the entire premise of elemental energies.
by the same token earthbenders could/should be able to "waterbend" because water contains dissolved metals/salts.
stupid stupid stupid and a sign of bad things
That logic is how we got metal bending remember?
exactly;
also stupid because it means that nonbenders have no purpose, and essentially create an even more massive plot hole.
That logic is how we got the korra series.
well no;
the solution is "bending is dying out" and to have magic fade away in favor of technology and modernization that steamroll tradition and mysticism.
the line separating the magic of bending versus physics and sciences needs to be one found in a fading "spirit world" that is fading in part due to human expansion and progress.
>ACHKUTALY
eat paste nerd.
That reason gave us season one of Korra which is ok
Seasons ranking for korra
3>1>4>2
Would this be right?
4 is much better than 1 story-wise, though 1 has the best animation. It's 3 > 4 > 1 > 2 in my books.
Literally how is 4>1. Korra didnt do shit as a paraplegic and the shit ending was stupid.
Kuvira is a much better villain, Korra's arc that season is very compelling, and the way she defeats Kuvira in the finale is a really fantastic capstone for her character (as compared to what S1 would have been as a stand-alone ending). S1 has really excellent animation, but in all other areas S4 is superior. I do love that S1 takes place entirely in Republic City, though, Republic City is fricking awesome.
I laughed my ass off at seeing her in a wheelchair and that's the only time the show made me laugh intentional or not
You know, my opinion is biased because season 2 was so bad it ruined the show for me but I guess I can find plenty wrong with both seasons 3 and 1
I just like season 1 more because it has a better villain and the world still somewhat makes sense
Plus season three has the airbending tornado which I hate, I hate when characters pull a new superpower out of their asses because it's convenient to the plot, they are meant to be people who just got their powers yet they can learn something like that on the spot? Frick you
The Tornado is saner than Bolin Lavabending
It is bullshit and it's them clearly trying to do tophs metalbending 2.0
But at least bolin had been bending his entire life
Because is a metaphor for rape
Found the woman.
OP asked why it is BAD tho
It violates the geneva convention
>NOOOOOOO YOU MUST FOLLOW THESE VERY SPECIFIC RULES WHEN KILLING EACH OTHER! OTHERWISE ITS NOT FAIR!
Just sorch this fricking earth already I'm tired of being here.
I mean I want to die too but I'll take a bullet or a rope instead of a slow death by chemicals or radioactivity
You can't be against this
I'll take anything at this point.
>just kys!
I'm too much of a pussy to do it.
take a trip to El Salvador or something
In addition to being a huge pussy I am also dirt poor. I'm just waiting for anything to happen to me at this point.
Also i find interesting how using bloodbending they technically could rupture the arteries and organs literally having a instakill move.
Water benders are scary
ATLA is a very spiritually charged setting and it is an act which is very spiritually "unclean" per the setting rules. That's basically it.
>hurling bone breaking boulders good
>throwing ice shards good
>literally drowning people with water
>maiming people with fricking fire just like zuko good
>blood bending bad tho
they probably didnt expect people to think too hard about it
Because it interferes with a person's free will. It is way more ethical to physically injure someone than it is to take away their bodily autonomy.
Katara is a special case. Though to be frank, Bloodbending seems like an immoral thing when you can willingly control your enemy's body and torture them like that.
It's Dark Arts for sure, but it does have its own pros. Katara's was so traumatic b/c of her view on life and nature, being forced to partake in something that goes against her views on a fundamental level broke her. Hence why the only other time Katara used it she was mentally and emotionally in a dark place.
Could you imagine Korra just completely desiccating an opponent's body?
Its as dark as the show could get without having someone die on screen.
Would advanced doctors use blood bending to treat blood illnesses in a renaissance/modern aged avatar world?
Maybe because everyone we've seen use it (other than Katara) is a megalomaniac puppeteer psycho?
>crazy old woman that kidnaps random villagers and imprisons/tortures them in a cave
>mob boss that rules the underground of Republic City
>cult leader that maims people to erase their ability to bend
>corrupt politician who makes his dissenters disappear
Because avatar is a show for kids and this is the most violent thing they could get away with
It's basically rape. But hey if Aang can go into people's minds and take away their abilities then blood bending can't be too evil.
Because being controlled from the blood in your body can have immense consequences on the body.
Frick, just look at the effects from long term G force training.
Because it's the consequence of women who should have stuck to healing being allowed to fight.
That shit makes you evil
Avatar's elements doesn't makes sense because air, water and earth basically represents three states of the matter while fire bending is just combustion, that somehow manipulates lightning, which implies it controls energies in general. Either way, things that we can find in everyone's body.
Because before the LoK it was mostly an elaborate torture method. I mean, it's very strong for the dueling, but ultimately it's completely useless for the 99% of benders as anything but the torture device, since, with the exception of the prodigies like Katara, most of them wouldn't be able to even use it beyond just giving somebody the extraordinarily painful cramps and maybe some telekinetic shove.
>tldr: for the same reason the human rights tribunal frowns upon using pointlessly elaborate killing methods during the war.